Get Full Government Meeting Transcripts, Videos, & Alerts Forever!
West Sacramento reviews bicycle, pedestrian and trails master plan update; engagement and state e-mobility rules highlighted
Summary
City commissioners and consultants reviewed the Bicycle, Pedestrian and Trails Master Plan update, discussed aligning mode‑shift goals with funding and accountability, and heard community priorities around connectors, protected bike lanes and lighting; consultants outlined next steps and phase 2 outreach.
West Sacramento's Transportation, Mobility and Infrastructure Commission met Jan. 12 to review progress on the city's Bicycle, Pedestrian and Trails Master Plan update, hear findings from consultant teams and community engagement partners, and discuss how ambitious the plan's mode‑shift goals should be.
Steve Rosen of the city's Transportation Mobility section said the update will set the city's investment priorities through 2035 and align the BPTMP with the new general plan mobility elements and the Vision Zero action plan. "This plan will fold in those changes about electric mobility and the way we've changed moving through our city post quarantine," he said.
Trace McMillan of Nelson Nygaard (NN Engineering) described the technical approach and how the plan ties to funding eligibility. McMillan said the team used Replica trip data to characterize existing travel patterns and noted that on a typical 2025 weekday the dataset showed roughly 128,000 trips within the city and about 23–24% of those trips were walking or biking. "So this is all trips, all movements, all estimated modes," McMillan said, cautioning that Replica aggregates trip types and can include…
Already have an account? Log in
Subscribe to keep reading
Unlock the rest of this article — and every article on Citizen Portal.
- Unlimited articles
- AI-powered breakdowns of topics, speakers, decisions, and budgets
- Instant alerts when your location has a new meeting
- Follow topics and more locations
- 1,000 AI Insights / month, plus AI Chat
